Volunteer Application - The Heart Gardening Project | Heartscapes
Thank you so much for considering volunteering with us, we really value your contribution - without people like yourself, we can't exist.

Once you have submitted the details below, we will get in touch with you and please allow us a week as we are currently a small team. 
A little on us:
Heartscapes is an environmental charity that combines community, science and care to joyfully connect humans to humans, humans to nature and nature to nature through street gardening.
Though our charity is a start up we have been doing our work for almost a decade and have achieved a lot including helping to create over 100 gardens, engaging hundreds of households - and working with over 60 specialists and scientists.
Our current main focus is creating the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor which will be an Australia-first, 8km-long, ecology-centred, community-driven wildlife corridor for native pollinating insects. We currently have 35 gardens and are aiming for 200 to connect Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to Westgate Park. To do this we need to create a volunteer pool of about 200 to help create and maintain them. 
We would love your help!
OUR VALUES 
  • Creating - diverse gardens on public land, positivity, beauty, community and joy
  • Connecting - people to nature, people to people, nature to nature...and all of that to science 
  • Learning - from every part of this journey- science, people and nature 
  • Caring for Country - being inspired by and working with Traditional Owners to tread lightly on the land, treat Nature as family, learn from their culture and support reconciliation through re-planting indigenous plants 
  • Urgency - acting now to save our ecosystems and precious biodiversity 
  • Healing - helping reconnect humans to the parts of themselves that need nature and diversity
  • Diversity - celebrating different communities of fauna, flora, and humans 
  • Inclusivity - every human, plant and animal is key to what we do 
Your details
Your birthdate.
How did you hear from us?
Why are you interested in volunteering with us?
Name & phone number of emergency contact(s). Please feel free to list more than one.
Relationship of emergency contact(s).
What skills do you have? (select as many as apply)
















How many hours per month do you think you can contribute?




Is your Tetanus immunisation current?
Do you carry an asthma puffer?
Do you carry an EPI pen?
Do you have a current Working With Children Check (WWCC)? Please upload. (.jpeg, .png, .pdf)
Expiry date of WWCC (if applicable).
Please upload your CV or Resume if you have one (.jpeg, .png, .pdf)
Do you have a current Police Check? Please upload. (.jpeg, .png, .pdf)
Do you have a First Aid certificate?
Other info (optional)
Duty of Care
You are insured as a volunteer through Environment Victoria. 
You also have a Duty of Care to The Heart Gardening Project and need to take proper precautions that you look after your own safety. Also, by becoming a volunteer and member you will be agreeing to act in accordance to our values and vision safely with positivity and enthusiasm.